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Preventing Depression in Medical IllnessA New Lead?
Charles F. Reynolds III, MD;
Mary Amanda Dew, PhD;
Eric J. Lenze, MD;
Ellen M. Whyte, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(8):884-885.
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The aging of the US population and the substantial rates of depression among the elderly population both attest to the public health significance of depression in old age. It complicates medical illnesses and their management, increasing disability, mortality, and health care use.1 Moreover, it can be difficult to treat to remission. Unless prevention strategies are developed, depression in old age will increasingly erode health-related quality of life and drain health care resources.
Major depression can be successfully managed in general medical settings.2-3 Specifically, through the use of depression-care management strategies, evidence-based practice can be imported into primary care settings, doubling response rates seen in usual care, accelerating recovery, and reducing the burden of depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, disability, and caregiver distress.2-3 However, because first-line treatment is associated with only partial response for half . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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